The Ditchling Candle Company

Roses Candle • 003

Name: Roses Candle • 003
Brand: The Ditchling Candle Company
SKU: DCCC003
Price: 38.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Roses
yiayia's mahalepi

Fragrance notes
Top — green leaves, petals
Heart — rose
Base — rose, woody notes

Wax: natural soy, 220g
Wick: organic cotton
Vessel: rose glass with a silver lid, refillable
Size: 300ml
Burn time: ~ 45 hours

Growing up in Cyprus, the smell of roses meant mahalepi, the pale rose-water pudding my yiayia made, cool from the fridge and gone far too quickly. This is that smell, or as close as wax gets to it.

It opens green, more leaf than flower, before the rose comes through full and soft. Floral without being too sweet, less a perfume counter and more a garden in full bloom, an English June, and a long Cypriot summer that somehow smelled of the same flower.

Roses is the most personal candle we've made. It ties the island I grew up on to the country I've built a life in, two homes that both smell, in their own way, of roses.

Made in Sussex. Takes you somewhere warmer.

Read the story behind Roses →

Candle Care

Trim the wick. Your candle arrives trimmed and ready. Before each burn after that, trim the wick to 5mm. A shorter wick means a cleaner, steadier flame.

The first burn matters most. The first time you light it, let it burn for three to four hours, until the melted wax reaches the edge of the vessel. Wax has a memory. Get this first burn right and the candle burns evenly to the end. Cutting the first burn short will result in tunnelling down the middle, wasting both wax and scent.

Keep sessions under four hours. Any longer and the wax overheats, which burns off the fragrance and shortens the life of the candle.

Away from draughts. Burn on a level, heat-resistant surface, out of any breeze. Draughts make the flame flicker, which causes smoke and soot.

Stop at 5mm. When the wax burns down to the last 5mm, retire the candle. Burning below that isn't safe for the vessel or the surface it sits on.

Keep the vessel. Every one is made to be kept. Clean it out and give it a second life however you like, and for some batches and sizes we offer refills. Get in touch and we'll sort you out.